From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Indirect text properties
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2019 19:11:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sgmloy0h.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191117170527.GB11551@ACM> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Sun, 17 Nov 2019 17:05:27 +0000")
Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:
> The idea is that there could be several alternative sets of text
> properties with the same symbol simultaneously in a buffer, the Lisp
> code selecting which to use by binding a dynamic variable. This would
> be most useful for the syntax-table text property.
It would be useful -- it's been proposed a few times before, if I recall
correctly. I think Stefan M called this concept "planes" or
"namespaces" or something.
It'd allow us to get rid of the `font-lock-face'/`face' thing, too, I
think -- font-lock would just work on `face' in its own plane.
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-17 17:05 Indirect text properties Alan Mackenzie
2019-11-17 22:55 ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-11-18 18:06 ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-11-18 18:11 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
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